FINALLY!!!!!!!!!

I'm finally getting around to posting on this blog! We have been busy traveling and lots of other things--especially taking photos with my new camera. Wayne had to be gone this evening so I got to work on some photos of my journal work and post on this forum.

First, I finally finished a couple of pages in the journal I started at PLAY: the retreat. Not a lot, but I have a few more pages prepped for entries now, too.

I've also started a watercolor moleskin journal. I am attempting to do pen sketches (so I can't erase anything!) and then color them with watercolor pencils and a brush. I have the sketches below (just ignore some of the discoloring due to my amaturish photography) followed by the approximate view of what I sketched. I haven't been able to add to it for a little while but I plan to continue and practice.

OK. So I also finally got brave and started working in one of my large journals that I bound at PLAY. I made this entry while I was on vacation with friends at Panama City Beach, FL. It was a fun page to do. I created it while the weather was rainy one day during our trip.

First Post

Today is the day that I start my first art blog. I have another blog that is only hosting family and friends and related photos and I haven't been able to get any of my art on it. I think I'm finally comfortable with the whole "blog thing" now so I've decided to start another blog just for my art and related experiences.

This is a photo of my third watercolor ever.

I started lessons last fall and decided to take a plunge on a landscape this last session. It is partially completed. I still have to add all the other evergreens in the foreground that will appear behind the masked snow pieces. I'm quite pleased with it so far. I will finish it in August/September when I go back to my next class session.